Here is the blank map for Saturday. 40 pre-entries so Jens has printed 50 maps. You can ride any type of bike but, as we are called NYMBO, prizes will only be awarded to leading riders on mountain bikes this month.
Here is yesterday’s map. Glad we weren’t riding today
Thanks to Tim Evans for an excellent course and better weather than this weekend last year which meant that we had 55 riders. No snow and it didn’t start raining constantly until we had all finished. Thanks to the Wellington Inn for an excellent event centre and Jens Strain for another clear and accurate map. It’s a great area for riding at this time of year with such an intricate network of quiet country lanes linked by short bridleways – although I did push my bike up the worst one through Heck Gill Farm. Congratulations to the category winners especially Ed Oliver Evans with a brilliant score of 430. He used his local knowledge and cyclo-cross bike to good effect possibly helped by good map-reading skills and a reasonable level of fitness.
Darley Result
We will be back at the other side of the valley for our final event of the season in October. Before then, we have another winter event from the Blackamoor at Bridge Hewick near Ripon Racecourse next month with the league starting at Sutton Bank on March 15th.
There have been a few changes to the fixtures so please make sure that you download the up to date poster from the NYMBO web page and take copies to your local bike shops, biking groups and friends.
We have had 45 pre-entries for this event so Jens has printed 50 maps and descriptions – and here is the blank map.
Sorry it wasn’t posted on Tuesday but Dave Robertson is away skiing.
PS The Washburn event has been put back a week until June 28th so here is an updated poster
2014 NYMBO League Poster 22nd January
PPS The Spring OMM Bike event has been brought forward a week to April 26/27th due to a major car rally on the May Bank Holiday weekend
Thanks to the Dales Bike Centre for providing an excellent event centre and congratulations to the category leaders but I think we were all winners to ride for 3 hours in Swaledale on such a perfect day. I planned this permanent MBO course for the centre in March but very few riders have taken up the challenge. Hopefully, you have set the benchmark and more riders will try to match your scores or you may even decide to return and try again at the 5 hour event.
2013 Fixed course map (pdf version)
The next 2 NYMBO events will be ‘treasure hunt’ style events base on pubs in Nidderdale and Lower Wensleydale. The fliers are on the fixtures pages.
I have already posted the draft fixture list for 2014 (ProvisionalFixtures2014 (3rd Dec)) – and have now got planners for all of them except Dalby in September. Please get in touch if you want to have a go! Many of the dates, venues and time limits are only suggestions and I have not approached any landowners yet so please get back to me if you want to suggest any alternatives. Our average numbers were down to 87 this year and I don’t know why but I would like to see this return to 100 riders per event in 2014.
I am also planning both of the OMM Bike & Lite events next year. The Spring event will be in North East England on May 3rd/4th and the Autumn event will be in Northern England on September 6th/7th.
There will also be at least 2 MTBO events, the Moors Marathon as well as Le Tour so plenty of opportunities to ride in North Yorkshire again next year. Hope to see you there.
Steve
What a fantastic day. North Yorkshire at it’s best.Results below and full report later
Swaledale Winter Results
ProvisionalFixtures2014 – Google Drive
Here is an amended provisional list of fixtures for next year with suggested dates, venues and planners. Thanks to everyone who has offered to plan an event. They’re all filled now! This is only a draft list so please get back to me if you would like to see any changes.
Swaledale Blank Map
Here is the map of Saturday’s area. There are 40 controls on the permanent course so plenty of route choice and don’t forget your pen to write down the letter at each control as we are not using SI for this event.
We have got 30 pre-entries so please enter online by Thursday evening then we can print enough copies for everyone. We will be able to print extra maps on the day if necessary but we have only got an A4 printer and it’s an A3 map!
Please try to get an early start if you are intending to go to the BMBO AGM afterwards and leave enough time for an excellent lunch at the Dsles Bike Centre cafe. Hope to see you there.
Let’s hope the fine weather continues as the tracks have dried out nicely this week
It’s a week until the first winter event at the Dales Bike Centre at Fremington, and also the BMBO AGM. So, this seems like a good time to close the poll on the favourite league event of 2013.
The winner, but only just, is Dalby Forest in September – could that have edged it because of the great weather and the high scores I wonder?
Thanks to everyone who voted.
The dates for the three winter MBO events are now confirmed as:
The exact locations (i.e. the pubs) will be confirmed shortly. The draft details with entry information can be found here; you can enter for the November event now and you’ll be able to enter for the January & February events on the BMBO site soon.
If you want to import the winter event dates into your own calendar, you can use this ical link:
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